Reference Quotes

"In searching for the ideal verification platform to debug our custom prototype boards, we evaluated several new verification technologies and ultimately selected EVE's ZeBu. We were impressed by ZeBu's exceptional performance and flexibility of use, but even more so by its unique internal state design access during execution."

Marquette Anderson, Verification Manager, Texas Instruments

"Out of the box, within 3 hours and with little effort, ZeBu was emulating our computational design. Easy, straightforward and simple, we achieved an initial 3.5x speed up with no testbench changes. With less than 5 days of testbench tuneup, we achieved 1,000X speed up versus pure simulation. ZeBu is a perfect acceleration platform."

Don Matthews, Sr. Staff Design Engineer, Seagate

"We are using EVE. In my experience, setting up EVE takes days compared to weeks for the other emulator systems I have used.”

Winston Worrell, CAD Manger, Microsoft

"We've now successfully used the trace with dynamic triggers capturing important interrupt service routine functionality triggered by a certain program counter address inside the CPU. This has allowed us to track down a difficult to find software bug! This is clearly a strong feature of the EVE box, something we couldn't have done with the monitor function (too slow) and something we couldn't have done with FPGA (no visibility). Thanks for your support and help!”

Neil Parris, Design Engineer, ARM

“After a thorough and successful evaluation of EVE’s ZeBu we adopted this effective verification platform for two reasons. First and foremost, the ease of use and visibility of logic afforded by the ZeBu platform is second to none, especially when adjusted for price-performance. Secondly, the performance of up to 25MHz of ZeBu in transaction-based verification (for our core) allows us to refine firmware development months earlier in the design cycle. Both of these advantages are much more expensive with FPGA prototyping boards and impossible with traditional emulators.”

Willie Anderson, Engineering Vice President, Qualcomm

"With ZeBu’s huge throughput we were able to rely on random testing, high level diagnostics, and OS booting instead of manually-written tests. That option saved us significant engineering resources. The system has paid for itself in manpower savings alone.”

“ZeBu’s SCEMI interface is amazingly fast for linking our C++ transactors to the emulator. EVE gives us access to all the APIs, making it easy for us to create an efficient verification environment. We were able to leverage the testbenches and transactors that we used in simulation, but run them 5000 times faster!“

Mike Dickman, Sr. Principal Verification Engineer, PA Semi

"EVE solutions merge the best features of emulators for H/W acceleration with the top attributes of FPGA based prototyping platforms for S/W development, all in one product."

Olivier Becquet, Philips Semiconductors

"Instead of developing an in-house prototype, we elected to use EVE's Zebu-XL emulation system with 8 Virtex II FPGAs in the verification of a multi processor design. We have been satisfied with the product thanks to the following factors:
- Good emulation control and debugging tools
- Fast execution in transaction mode
- Good build and P&R flow
- Easy to partition different parts of the design into different FPGAs
- Good customer support

Sadik Ezer, Lead Engineer, Tensilica

"ZeBu outperformed our expectations in HW verification and HW/SW co-simulation. We have been impressed by its speed of execution, ease of use, and debugging capabilities."

Rakesh Mehta, ASIC Designer, LTX

"We evaluated ZeBu using existing designs over a period of one week. ZeBu was used to co-simulate hardware description language (HDL) test benches to reduce regression testing time.

"We have been extremely happy with the results. We are now looking forward to migrate our HDL test benches into C++ transactors, supported by ZeBu. Two of the most important aspects in our decision were ease of implementation and design debugging. Zebu offers both with seamless software and advanced debugging capability, enabling full internal state access during execution."

Principal ASIC engineer, Canon Information System Research Australia (CISRA)

"My only interest this year was hardware emulation. I re-evaluated the current emulators and to my surprise the newcomer ZeBu would be the winner in my book. The categories I used to evaluate these emulators where cost, speed performance, ease of use and gate capacity. EVE's Zebu came out on top in most of the categorizes. I understand their architecture is very simple but innovative. I plan to recommend this tool to the 20,000 engineers at my facility."

George Gomez, Raytheon, John Cooley's DAC 2004 report

“In short, Zebu is the accessible emulation platform we were waiting for in terms of price and setup time. It not only improves our engineering productivity in terms of the number of cycles non regression cycles we can run, but also enables us to reach deeper into our designs to find interesting hardware/software interface problems.”

Philippe Laurent, Hardware Department Manager, Renesas Design France

“We like ZeBu’s speed and ease of use – particularly with respect to automatic partitioning. Running in C++ cycle-based co-simulation we have seen a speedup of 300X over HDL simulation.

David Brochart, Digital Design Engineer, DiBcom